>Absolutely, employees should be a concern and a founder looking to be acquired should do whatever possible to ensure a successful future for them as well. Well then selling your company to a PE firm in a Leveraged…
I don' think you have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Almost all my 401K funds charge less than 1% a year and if you're in mostly equities you average 10% returns per year. Most bank accounts offer less…
This Heuristic is totally ludicrous, it reads like the rantings of someone who has never been to Grad school or done research.
Yeah actually you're right, all the engineers in Chicago, Boston, NYC, Raleigh, Austin and Boulder are trash. If they weren't why wouldn't they live in the place with the highest cost of living on earth?
I'd argue that the number of non degree holders that are capable of being good Software Engineers is very small.
Not to nitpick but most Ivy League schools have robust financial aid(families making less than 100K have no loans etc.) and the average debt load is <$40,000 which is very manageable with an Ivy League degree.
Can you name a single company that pays Remote Employees SF/Bay Area salaries? Edit: Fair enough. There are companies that pay everyone SF level salaries but you can also find companies like Gitlab - 100% Remote but…
> improve our ability to tap the 99.74% of talented engineers living outside the metro areas of our first four hubs Bbbut the only good engineers are in the Bay Area!!!! /s
I couldn't agree more. I'm surprised you haven't been downvote brigaded though. Judging by many threads I've seen on HN most(many?) SV types tend to disagree with you. Googlers especially seem to favor the opposite…
>Absolutely, employees should be a concern and a founder looking to be acquired should do whatever possible to ensure a successful future for them as well. Well then selling your company to a PE firm in a Leveraged…
I don' think you have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Almost all my 401K funds charge less than 1% a year and if you're in mostly equities you average 10% returns per year. Most bank accounts offer less…
This Heuristic is totally ludicrous, it reads like the rantings of someone who has never been to Grad school or done research.
Yeah actually you're right, all the engineers in Chicago, Boston, NYC, Raleigh, Austin and Boulder are trash. If they weren't why wouldn't they live in the place with the highest cost of living on earth?
I'd argue that the number of non degree holders that are capable of being good Software Engineers is very small.
Not to nitpick but most Ivy League schools have robust financial aid(families making less than 100K have no loans etc.) and the average debt load is <$40,000 which is very manageable with an Ivy League degree.
Can you name a single company that pays Remote Employees SF/Bay Area salaries? Edit: Fair enough. There are companies that pay everyone SF level salaries but you can also find companies like Gitlab - 100% Remote but…
> improve our ability to tap the 99.74% of talented engineers living outside the metro areas of our first four hubs Bbbut the only good engineers are in the Bay Area!!!! /s
I couldn't agree more. I'm surprised you haven't been downvote brigaded though. Judging by many threads I've seen on HN most(many?) SV types tend to disagree with you. Googlers especially seem to favor the opposite…